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DEFECTION: Ayade has been a mole in PDP ― Onuesoke On Onuesoke By Festus Ahon, Asaba Former Delta State Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, Thursday, said Governor Ben Ayade has been a mole, a sheep in wolves clothing, and a traitor to the people of Cross River State, the people of South-South Nigeria, and the entire Peoples Democratic Party, PDP family in the country. Onuesoke who reacting to the defection of Prof Ben Ayede to the All Progressives Congress, APC, said the Cross Rive...

He described the defection as nationalistic.

Dennis Naku Published 17 May 2021Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi,on Sunday clashed over the spate of insecurity in the state.Amaechi who spoke while presiding over the formal defection of two former commissioners in the Governor Nyesom Wike-led administration and others to the All Progressives Congress in Port Harcourt on Sunday attributed the rising crime in parts of Rivers State to the...

Share The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives on Monday raised the alarm over the alleged looting of over N165 billion operating surplus as well as other diverted funds running into billions of naira, by top officials of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA). This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the House Minority, Hon Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta). The lawmakers described it as “another sad commentary on the brimming corruption in the All Progressives, ...

Views: 205 President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku; and the Taraba State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Friday, expressed grief over the death of a former Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, who died in Cairo, Egypt, aged 61. They spoke in separate statements extolling the virtues of the deceased, who served as a senator and was a former Taraba State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress.  Buha...

Views: Visits 30 Senator Ademola Adeleke who has been away for a while, leaving many to wonder at what had become of him,is now a fully certified graduate. Fondly referred to as the dancing senator, Adeleke on Friday May 7th, graduated from the Atlanta Metropolitan State College, United States of America with a degree in criminal justice. Adeleke, a former senator who represented Osun west senatorial district at the National Assembly between 2017 and 2018, was also the gubernatorial ca...

51 ex-councillors dump PDP, join APC in Gombe Published 7 May 2021 Fifty-one former Peoples Democratic Party councillors who served in various Local Government Areas, of Gombe State, on Thursday, dumped the opposition party to join the ruling All Progressives Congress. Spokesman for the group of former councillors, Joseph Kwati, said their decision was based on the outstanding performance of the Gombe State Governor, Mohammed Yahaya. The councillors, who were drawn from across the 11 local gove...

ON THE GO Rivers won’t succumb to secessionist agenda, says Wike after attacks on police stations Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says no amount of attacks on police stations will make the state give in to agitations by secessionists.Advertisement There have been several attacks on security... Four Niger residents freed after ‘paying’ N3m ransom Four persons kidnapped from Tafa, a town in Kagarko LGA of Niger state, have been released by bandits after paying N3million r...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 7 May 2021 The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said his relationship with the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, remained cordial. Lawan gave the clarification on Friday through a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Ola Awoniyi. He was reacting to a newspaper’s report, not The PUNCH, which claimed that he was at loggerheads with Buni, who is also the caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress over the 2023 general elections. The s...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 6 May 2021 FORMER Senate spokesperson and the National Chairman of the South West Agenda for 2023, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, on Wednesday, accused Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, of plotting to decimate the All Progressives Congress. Adeyeye urged party leaders to call Fayemi to order. He said the governor’s actions and utterances “smirk of quick, deliberate, steps aimed at rescuing victory from the mouth of APC’s nascent national electoral fortunes...